residential facility
Place people live
A residential facility is a place where people live while receiving care, treatment, or supervision.
The term covers nursing homes, group homes, rehabilitation centers, and similar institutions.
It often serves as neutral administrative language, avoiding the specific implications of words like asylum, institution, or home: The state licenses residential facilities for individuals with developmental disabilities.
- dormitoryStudent living building
- nursing homeLong-term eldercare residence
- memory careSupport for cognitive decline
- group homeSupervised shared residence
- shelterProtected place or structure
halfway house · sober living · assisted living · retirement community · care home · long term care · hospice · rehab · institution · boarding school · campus · room and board · communal · common area · beds · rooms · staff · house rules
- child welfarechild protection, child welfare, foster care, child services, foster home
- residential facilitiesnursing home, assisted living, group home, care home, foster home
- shared housingroommate, roommates, housemate, flatmate, houseshare
- psychiatric facilitiespsychiatric hospital, mental hospital, mental institution, psychiatric ward, psych ward
- juvenile detentionjuvenile hall, juvie, reform school, detention center, youth detention
residential facilitycommercial building
Structure for business purposes
office building · factory · office · workplace · warehouse
residential facilityhotel
Commercial lodging establishment
motel · temporary lodging · hostel · temporary accommodation · short-term rental
residential facilitycivic building
Government-owned public structure
government building · public institution · community center · municipal building
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